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Post by Laoren on Jan 10, 2019 0:21:53 GMT
Laoren was surprisingly the sort to be self-conscious about her dress. It made sense considering that 50% of the reason she entered civilization at all was to shop for new clothes, but it was honestly the sort of flaw that a person of her age should have gotten over by now. She resolved to be a little more dignified as she sat at a table in a popular traveler's tavern alone, sitting up straighter.
Of course, Glaciara could draw that sort of feeling out of just about anyone who was from elsewhere. Though not everyone wore garbs of amazing quality, near every outfit she had seen on the way in from the train had been adjusted for quality of presentation. Armors were cut to accentuate the wearer's features while remaining functional. Merchants wore furs that seduced lookers-on with both their flattering styles and their cozy warmth. Even the local urchins had immaculate posture whenever they were standing still, or at least when they remembered.
Laoren's was no slouch in the clothing department, with her white jacket and purple tabard complementing her pale features while being serviceable for snow camouflage. Still, coming into Tescaula's capital, she had to admit she could do better.
The most shabby part of her appearance, and what might have been the cause of her out-of-place sensation, was the crude wooden sign that she'd placed: "Help Wanted: Dungeon". Laoren knew from experience that even just this simple sign would be enough to draw attention from an Outsider, but even outside of Glaciara, it would have been embarrassing to sit in the local pub with this grade school-tier signage. She cleared her mind and focused on the reckless adventurer types that hopefully might pass by the frozen country. |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Jan 10, 2019 21:27:07 GMT
Being a girl of dragon blood, specifically on the fire end of the line, Mia wasn't exactly the kind to frequent cold climates, but sometimes needs must, and not everything she needed to make money could be found on the world trees adventuring hub in the forest. No, there were a fair few beasties with exotic carvings she could grab to earn her a pretty penny found only on the other flowers. Not only that, but with the unclaimed nature of the forest flower, it left the place a bit uncharted, and sometimes Mia fancied a more easy day of work to make a living.
Still, the cold was the cold, and she despised it. Pulling the front of her jacket tight in her hand to keep it snug around her she hurried into the nearest tavern after getting off the train, always the best place to grab a rumor or two as to where she should be looking for what she was after...what she hadn't expected was to see a, admittadly, cute girl holding up a blatant sign for aid. Mia glanced around her, seeing a few who were clearly interested, but murmered more amongst themselves, as if asking eachother what kind of person held up a sign like that.
Rolling her eyes, the dragon girl herself sauntered over, firmly holding the staff of the sign on one hand and lowering it to the ground for the girl before addressing her. "You know...you totally coulda just...propped that against a table and sat down or something. Ya know?"
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Post by Laoren on Jan 10, 2019 21:56:08 GMT
The petitioning woman smiled warmly when she was finally approached, not moving any other part of her body. "Unfortunately I froze in this position just before I could sit down." As she said this, she pulled up a seat for the person before her before taking a seat herself, doing both with the grace and dexterity of someone who was probably not frozen.
"So, uh, are you interested in helping me out? I mean, you've already helped me by pointing out my inefficient recruiting methods," she added with a sincere tone but a sly smile. The sort of person that would break past crowd apathy to come talk to her might also be the sort of person she could bring along, although the woman who'd appeared was definitely a little less gung-ho than Laoren had been hoping. Maybe some of the modern Outsiders were getting more jaded?
"I offer a standard adventuring reward, of course: the promise of a mystical weapon at the end of the quest." Noticeably, there was nothing mystical or weapon looking on her person at the moment. |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Jan 10, 2019 22:01:41 GMT
Mia couldn't help but snicker as this girl clearly had a sense of humor and must have realized in part how silly her approach to this was. Still, power to her, if this was how she wanted to get attention it certainly got Mia's, and now the blonde dragon was crossing her arms eager to hear what this was all about, nodding along at the question of being interested. With the seat for her she let her weight fall into her, her large size making the wooden chair creak just a little but settle quickly once she got comfortable.
"Oh I'm interested. I was kinda coming here for an easy pay day today, but what adventurer would miss up such an obvious call to...well, adventure?~" She smirked wide and leaned back in her chair, pulling her hands behind her head and crossing one leg over the other as she got comfortable, her idle curiosity keeping her listening.
She tilted her head at the offer of a weapon, but the blonde scoffed a little and shook her head. "Weapons aren't exactly my thing, but hey, if you don't mind me selling it for some cash I'm sure I could enjoy the trip all the same. What's the job exactly?"
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Post by Laoren on Jan 10, 2019 22:20:58 GMT
"Ah, excellent. So you are the adventurous type." The winged woman nodded, fist pumping just below the table in an entirely unsubtle fashion that her approach had worked, though her expression and posture remained normal and calm.
"Well, let me introduce myself briefly before I get into things. My name is Laoren. I live outside the flowers, traveling the branches and whatnot. It's very relaxing. I used to have a walking buddy, but he fell off the tree and that was the last I saw of him," she said in deliberately over-the-top (under-the-bottom?) monotone. "Sometimes I see something scary on my walks, and I come into town to recruit a hardy traveler to help out."
"Speaking of hardy..." Laoren paused momentarily to admire the physique of the woman before her. "Your sturdy build...the lack of desire for weaponry. It's quite clear to me that you must be...a magician! I was hoping for a front guard, but more magic can't hurt." She lifted up her shoulders as she shook her head.
"Anyway, be it cold steel or cold cash, what I would like you to do is help me fight some baddies, for the good of the tree and all. It's dangerous and all, but I've had to do it alone before, and, well, you look a lot tougher than me, so you should be fine, right?" Indeed, Laoren's own build was slight enough that a whimsical passerby could easily visualize the person in front of her snapping her in half. |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Jan 10, 2019 22:28:02 GMT
"Hahahha, you could say that yeah!~" She grinned wide and smirked before leaning into the table a little to address her more directly, noting her arm shift but unable to recognize how she was pumping her fist out of sight, just mentally shrugging it off and smirking as she continued to listen.
Mia didn't expect the backstory to that, though briefly it did make her raise an eyebrow. As far as she understood the tree branches had their own gravity. You could walk all the way around one if you fancied one hell of a long trek, so how did...well. She had heard that some people who ventured far out enough on the branch could escape their pull, and being adventuers, maybe they tested that theory...Mia wouldn't be so rude as to ask a stranger the details of how she lost a friend however, and kept her own mouth shut.
"My name's Mia. And no-" She chuckled a little and shook her head at the assumption, leaning a little more into the table. "Sturdy build should be what your focusing on. I'm front line all the way." She slowly lifted her arm, and through her rugged gloves, the fingerless holes allowed it to be clear that her fingers turned a scaly red as her nails turned to claws. "Put me in the back and you'll be wasting potential here.~" Her hand turning back to normal, she lowered it back down. "I just prefer to work with my hands is all.~"
Hearing more details of the mission, she did have to ask. "When ya say baddies we talking monsters or other people? I mean I don't mind either way, a jobs a job, I just need to know what I'm getting into so I don't get either of us in over our heads. I'm a thrill seeker but I ain't suicidal, ya feel me?" She did smile and add however. "Though I mean, odds are I'll do it anyway. You seem confident enough for whatever this is!~"
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Post by Laoren on Jan 10, 2019 22:46:25 GMT
Laoren had a slightly forced grin on, a mixture of both amusement and mild disappointment. Or maybe she was trying not to laugh. "Front line it is. Perfect," she said with a snap of her fingers. "And monsters, I would say. Doesn't mean they might not be wily." Her eyes lingered on Mia's gloves for a moment, perhaps appreciating their combination of style and practicality.
"All that's a little far off, anyway. First, we have the pre-adventure adventure. I gotta go and find all this stuff before we can do the quest proper. Then I shall truly be recklessly confident." She passed Mia a small roll of paper, which had various items on it in a shopping list form.
- Three days' rations per person
- Healing potions or drag along a healer (optional)
- Warm traveling clothes
- Legendary magic-enhancing staff
- Train tickets back to Silvaria
"The last one's for me, the cold around here is really too much for me to walk back to warmer lands, so I'll suck it up and take a train for once," Laoren explained. |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Jan 10, 2019 22:56:05 GMT
Mia nodded along at the confirmation it would be monsters they'd be facing before crossing her arms and leaning back into her seat once again, feeling pretty at ease about what they were going into, though taking the small roll of paper and unfurling it in her hands. Her eyes glanced down the page, snickering a little at how the legendary magic staff was midway down the page and not at the very end.
"One of these things is not like the other...~"
Rolling her eyes all the same she rolled it back up and tossing it across the table. "Sounds easy enough...well ya know, except for the 'legendary' staff part. We could maybe find you a pretty average one at a local store, but as far as legendary goes you may have to be the one to guide me for that." Still, if that was there entire shopping list, Mia pushed herself back up to her feet, cracking her knuckles and twisting her head about to crack her own neck out a bit. "Still, if that's all, we best get crackin' eh? No point waisting time sitting around here eh?"
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Post by Laoren on Jan 10, 2019 23:02:49 GMT
Laoren nodded at Mia's suggestion, standing up herself and sneezing once. Instead of leaving, she went over to the counter and talked briefly with the barkeep. After an exchange of coin, she received a mug of something warm which she downed in one go.
Wiping her face off with her sleeve, she returned back to the table to pick up her sign. "Had to get something. Felt bad just taking up space without being a customer, you know?" Not that the tavern was at capacity at this hour, but there was such a thing as common courtesy.
"Do you know where I can get the other stuff around here? I'm not really a local." In all honestly, the brawler before her didn't seem like a local either, but Laoren had always counted on the adventurous types to be odd ducks. "And I'm not sure a regular staff would work. Maybe if I wasn't so rusty on my magic..." |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Jan 10, 2019 23:07:53 GMT
Mia was curious as to the last minute order, but scoffed and chuckled when the reason was given, shaking her head with a snicker and ruffling the hair atop the girls head. "Yeah I get what you mean. luckily I don't have to deal with that guilt since I ain't been here too long, but I'll likely get something here anyway before I leave town. It is a tavern afterall.~" She winked playfully before moving out with the girl, holding the door open for her ahead of them as they got out into the snow.
"I ain't one either. I'm from Ardura, so this weather is kinda hell compared to what I'm used to. its literally frozen over hell." She shivered the moment they got out and adjusted her jacket to cover her better the moment they were back out in the cold air again. She glanced to the girl, curious why she was set on this legendary staff, but hey, maybe they'd get lucky and some local magic-smith would have something decent for sale. "Come on." She began, shivering between her words as she puffed out steam. "Im sure if we get walking into town we'll see a sign for a poti-oh! Wait! That I can do!" She slammed her fist into her palm as the idea hit her, and started into a jog to keep warm.
Looking back to make sure Laoren was coming up, she explained. "There's a potion maker I know here, usually sell him ingrediants from beasts I slay and stuff. He should be able to do us good on the healing potion!"
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Post by Laoren on Jan 10, 2019 23:23:35 GMT
Deep in her heart, Laoren held an appreciation for the sort of person that would look at a shopping list and immediately work to acquire the optional item. There had been one or two Outsiders she'd worked with that were like this, but they had always said something about 'sidequests' when she raised the topic.
It didn't really make sense to mention it this time, though, since her companion for this quest was apparently a native to this world, or at the very least gone sufficiently native. Instad, she simply clutched her jacket closer as she ran to follow along.
"So you like the cold as little as I do, but you have a friend here? Ah, I know, it must be because chilled potions taste better, right?" Laoren's eyes went slightly wide at her own statement. Though it was meant in jest, she'd never really thought before about whether keeping her potions cold might actually make them more palatable. Something to consider.
Running caused the wind to bite a little harder at the woman's face, and she found herself hoping that this apothecary was somewhere close by, and hopefully not in a wind tunnel area of the city. |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Jan 10, 2019 23:29:35 GMT
As a native herself Mia was just along for the ride at this point, and didn't have the quests and side quests mentality some select outsiders could have. For Mia this was just another job, and it'd be stupid to go out without a chance to heal themselves. As they continued to jog to her contact in the town for potions, she scoffed and shook her head. "Nah, i just met them when I was trying to sell crap like I said. I usually bring my supplies all the way from Ardura. Besides, in this weather? You don't need to buy them here for them to end up chilled."
With a few turns through the town they eventually reached the magically glowing sign of an apothecary, Mia holding the door open and letitng Laoren get in first before following in behind, smirking at what appeared to be just a ball of wool layed out beside the cauldron, waving her hand as if to get it's attention. "How ya doin' ya old coot?"
The ball of wool stirred to life, shifting around, two blue eyes seemed to pear through the strands and the ball of wool hopped across to the two of them, a surprisingly young voice coming out, feminine, but on the border. "Oi just cause I'm older than you dosn't make me old." The fluffball now infront of them both, their eyes turned to Laoren, a stranger to them and offered out a fluffy hand. "Oh, not often she works alongside people. You two got supplies for me?"
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Post by Laoren on Jan 10, 2019 23:58:07 GMT
"Ah, I hadn't thought of that." Laoren inclined her head as they moved along, half as a nod acknowledging Mia, but half just to protect her face from the cold.
As they arrived, Laoren immediately moved away from the door and shivered in an exaggerated manner as she looked around. The storefront seemed respectable enough, as expected from the Tescaulan capital. And the proprietor...
Being good at concealing one's age did not necessarily make one good at guessing the ages of others, and so Laoren simply pointed down at the fluff. "The proprietor here doesn't sound that old. Unless...are you from one of those races that ages super fast?" Laoren asked Mia with a scanning stare.
"Uh, in any case, I asked for help on some questing, and she seemed keen enough. Guess I'm special, maybe?" The winged human scratched the back of her head and laughed a little. "I don't have any supplies. Actually, we were hoping to purchase some, in the form of some healing potions?" |
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Post by Mia Kearney on Jan 11, 2019 0:23:06 GMT
Mia snorted at the fact Laoren thought she was a quick ager, and the fluffball actually seemed oddly offended. "Actually I'm a slow ager." THey interupted before Mia could give any cheeky answers to mislead Laoren further. "I'm over 200 hundred years old but I'm still younger looking than your pal here as far as our races are concerned."
Mia decided to raise her hand and add. "Despite the dragon blood I seem to age normally...so far at least. Who knows, maybe I'll stay in my prime for a couple dozen years now that I'm all grown up."
The fluffball rolled their eyes at Mia before they began to hop over to their shelves behind the counter, tendrils of fluff coming out of their main florm and tracing along the bottles on the shelves, selectinga few well labeled potions, some health potions, other's not. "Oh I'm sure I can do ya for something like that. I got healing potions, constitution potions, limb regrowth incase things get dicey..." They looked over their shoulder, as best they could without having one at least and asked. "You guys working on this flower? I could throw in a warmth potion for free if you buy enough healing?"
Mia leaned close and whispered carefully. "Say no, she literally just throws spicy crap into a potion of minty breath and shakes it up. Does nothing but make your mouth boil."
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Post by Laoren on Jan 11, 2019 0:50:02 GMT
"Two hundred...that is pretty long. I could only hope to be so active in another hundred or so years," Laoren stated with a very slight smile. "And of course, I would probably need all my limbs to do that."
She craned her head over the potions that the store owner had picked out, as well as scanning through some other labels on the shelf, mostly out of curiosity. Although some of the more questionable labels caught her eye briefly, Laoren ultimately returned to the selection that had been recommended to them.
"This warmth potion...sounds pretty good," she said after considering Mia's warning, keeping her face neutral. "How long does it keep? I do travel to some other cold places." As she asked, she moved a few healing potions and one of the limb regrowth potions to the side, taking a quick look at her fellow questant before choosing to ignore the constitution potion for the moment. |
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